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ATEP students, faculty, and alumni traveled to Sac-
ramento on February 28th to participate in the 3rd
annual California Athletic Trainers’ Association
“Hit the Hill” day. Our students started the day
learning about governmental affairs in athletic
training and were introduced to the process of
lobbying at the
state capital.
The students
then shadowed
their mentor
Athletic Train-
ers in meetings
with their re-
spective sena-
tors and assem-
bly members in
an effort to
garner support
for AB 374. AB
374 would pro-
vide for the
regulation and
licensure of
athletic trainers
by creating an Athletic Trainer Licensing Commit-
tee established within the Medical Board of Cali-
fornia. While there, the group also lobbied for
support of AB 25 (Management of Concussions
and Head Injuries for Athletes) and SB 63
(Automated External Defibrillators at Public High
Schools) in an effort to promote legislation that
protects California athletes.
CBU’s MSAT program created quite an
impression by bringing the largest contingent of
athletic training fac-
ulty and students to
the capital for the
second straight year
(27 out of the 175
attendees have
Lancer roots). The
program also gar-
nered recognition
because the Athletic
Training Student Or-
ganization, led by
Lindsay Warren, or-
ganzied the effort to
fund and coordinate
bus transportation,
lodging, and event
sponsored attire for
88 Athletic Training
students from California to go to Sacramento and
make a difference. And, oh, what a difference they
made! You can view the California Athletic Train-
ers’ Association PSA and support our cause at
http://ca-at.org/ca-legislation/proposed-legislation/
support-our-cause/.
Ins ide This
I s sue
ATEP Hits
the Hill
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Alumni & Fam-
ily Updates
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ATEP Update 3
NATA Month 3
March Glad-
ness
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FWATA Meet-
ing
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Lecture Series 5
M a y 2 0 1 1 V o l u m e 3 , I s s u e 1
Lancer Update
Differential
Diagnosis
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Congrats
Grads!
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Life in the
ATEP
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Life in the
ATEP
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Life in the
ATEP
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Life in the
ATEP
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Clover’s Cor-
ner
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Lancers Hit the Hill with CATA
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ALUMNI & FAMILY NEWS
Joe Luat recently accepted an Assistant Athletic Trainer
position with the Atlanta Braves. He will be working with
their Gulf Coast League affiliate in Kissimmee, FL..
Veronica Mondaca became a Certified Athletic Trainer
when she passed the BOC exam in April.
Tiffany Duran passed the BOC exam in February. She
became the first student in ATEP history to take and pass
the exam that early in their final semester.
Chase Paulson passed the BOC exam in April. He is also
preparing for his first marathon and has lost 80lbs over the
past year during his training.
Jennifer (Binggeli) Vetter passed the BOC exam in
April. She was also selected to complete an AT Internship
at NASA, but will be turning it down to move to Switzer-
land to work with a volleyball team as their athletic
trainer.
Mark West passed the BOC exam in April.
Evan Stubbs was selected as the award winner for the
Hawaii Athletic Trainers’ Association student scholarship.
Cydney Owen, Geniqua Harris, and Caitlyn Ratcliffe
were hired by Varsity Camp Administration to work as
First Aid staff for their cheerleading camps being held
throughout the state this summer.
Jennifer (Moore) Parker had her paper,
“Contemporary Issues of Heat Illnesses,” accepted for
publication in The Sport Journal. She will also begin teach-
ing part-time at Mt. San Jacinto College during the Fall se-
mester.
Several ATEP Alumni and ATSs decided to answer the call
of UCR team physicians in helping to provide coverage for
the Western States Police & Fire Games in June.
A few of our ACIs and ATSs were able to celebrate win-
ning National Championships this year. Charlie Ramos and
Daniel Scalia celebrated a title with Men’s Volleyball, while
Stephanie Perez “got a ring” with Women’s Swimming &
Diving. The Women’s Golf team also won their first cham-
pionship. Congrats to all!
We would like to congratulate Tony and Heather On-
tiveros on the addition of Lily Elisabeth (pictured be-
low) to their family. She was born on March 21, 2011 at
3:45pm and weighed in at 7lbs 11ounces. Congrats!
The ATEP would also like to welcome a new AT to our
family - Christina Orozco. Christina Joined the UCR
Athletic Training Staff in February. Prior to joining the
UCR staff, Christina earned an MEd in Athletic Training
from the University of Virginia and a BS in Kinesiology
from California State University—Fresno.
The ATEP would like to thank Jenna Rasmussen for her
commitment and service to the program and our stu-
dents. We are sad to see her move on from the ATEP,
but are very appreciative for her efforts in educating our
students and helping the program grow. We wish Jenna
the best in the next step of her career and would like to
remind her…”once a Lancer, always a Lancer.”
The ATEP would also like to thank Dr. Jan Kodat and
her family for hosting the annual end of the year Gradua-
tion and Alumni party. We had a great time celebrating
our graduating class and spending time with the ACIs and
alumni that make our program great. We look forward to
seeing all of you there next year.
Look for a story on new clinical instructors & clinical sites
that have been added for the Fall semester in the next
edition of the Lancer Update.
Congratulations to the following Lancer alumni and family for
their accomplishments. Our apologies in advance for any
person or event we have missed… it was not done purposely.
To be included in future editions of the CBU ATEP Update,
please forward your personal and/or professional news to
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We are excited to announce that Dr. Greg Heinen has officially become our new ATEP Medical Direc-
tor. Although Dr. Heinen has been involved giving guest lectures and offering surgical observations to
ATEP students for the past few years, we are thrilled he was
willing to join the ATEP in an official capacity. His new posi-
tion will allow for him to become more involved in the pro-
gram in a leadership and advisory role, while still calling for
him to be directly involved in student education. We believe
Dr. Heinen’s expertise and leadership will be a great adminis-
trative benefit to the program. Additionally, it will provide
new opportunities and growth potential for our students and
the ATEP. Please be sure to say hello (and thank you) to Dr.
Heinen the next time you see him!
Dr. Heinen Joins ATEP as Medical Director
National Athletic Training
Month The month of March was National Athletic Training Month. During this
time, the students, staff, and faculty members of the Master of Science in
Athletic Training (MSAT) Program attempted to find ways to spread
information about who Athletic Trainers are and what we do as a pro-
fession. Athletic Trainers are health care professionals that collaborate
with physicians to optimize activity and participation of patients/athletes.
Athletic Training encompasses the prevention, diagnosis, and interven-
tion of emergency, acute, and chronic medical conditions involving im-
pairment, functional limitations, and disabilities.
As a way of educating the public on the athletic training profession and
to give back to the community, CBU’s Head Athletic Trainer, Adam C.
Cady, took the lead on a project to set up community service events at
the following locations: Catholic Charities, San Bernardino, CA; Meal-on
-Wheels, San Diego, CA; Surfrider Association, Newport Beach, CA;
Save Our Shores, Monterey, CA; American River Parkway Foundation,
Sacramento, CA; The Shade Tree, Las Vegas, NV; and Surfrider Founda-
tion, Waimanalo Bay, HI.
This inaugural Community Service Day for National Athletic Training
Month gave over 100 individuals across the District (California, Nevada,
and Hawaii) the opportunity to serve the community and promote the
profession of Athletic Training. In an effort to do their part, the MSAT
was represented by 21 students, staff, faculty, and alumni at the events
partnering with the Surfrider Association and Catholic Charities. The
early returns were positive and we hope this will serve as the building
blocks for more community service events involving the MSAT in the
future.
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This year the Athletic Training Student Organization was asked by Dr. Rick Henderson of Kaiser to organize and
provide medical coverage for March Gladness. March Gladness is organized by California Home School Sport. Their
desire is that every home-schooled child will have the opportunity to participate in physical education classes and
athletic competition. Sports included in the program are: basketball, volleyball, cross-country, and track and field.
March Gladness is an annual southern California basketball tournament that hosts teams from across the country.
The games are played across the cities of Riverside, Corona and Norco. Our job as CPR/First Aid responders was
to care for any injury or illness that occurred. We were lucky enough not to have any serious injuries happen during
play, but were needed for minor bumps, bruises and cuts.
We met many wonderful and gracious people along the way. The players, parents, and coaches were all thankful for
the professional care and time we provided out of our busy schedules. For them to know that their kids were in
safe and caring hands was all they needed. We were thanked by hugs from parents and fist pounds from the athletes
for being there when they needed it. A thank you in this profession is not necessary because we are doing what we
love but it is always appreciated in whatever form it is given. I want to thank my classmates who donated their time
and energy and I hope that they were touched by these kids and their families in the same way I was.
We, as a club, plan on making this an annual event to support our community and California Home School Sports.
-Caitlyn Ratcliffe
ATSO takes part in “March Gladness”
FWATA Highlights The ATEP had our largest turnout for the FWATA Clinical Symposium this year in Las Vegas in regards to
alumni and student attendance. We also had our first group of students participate in the FWATA “Quiz Bowl,”
which allows for ATEP students from different universities to compete against one another in a “Jeopardy-style”
challenge. CBU entered two teams competing against eight other teams from schools such as Cal State Fuller-
ton, Chapman University, UNLV, and Cal State Long Beach. CBU had a great showing with our two teams plac-
ing 2nd and 4th(we’ve been “told” that a “scoring error” prevented that from reading 2nd & 3rd...not that our
students are competitive or anything). The event came down to the “Final
Jeopardy” question where our teams lost a VERY close battle to the even-
tual champions from UNLV. It was a very proud moment for the ATEP as
our students represented us extremely well. We’re looking forward to our
students working towards an even better performance next year. We
would like to congratulate the students that competed (Todd Conger, Tina
Garcia, Lucy Gomez, Chase Paulson, Evan Stubbs, & Mark West)...and their
classmates that helped prepare them….on an excellent performance!
We also had ATEP family members involved in other conference events. A
few served as volunteers at the conference...others took part in committee
events….and some presented at the conference or served as instructors
for workshops. It was wonderful to see so many involved in different as-
pects of the event. The weekend ended nicely with several of our students
winning prizes (pictured to the left) from Bill Chambers at the FWATA
“Dog and Pony Show.” We want to thank everyone that participated at
FWATA and represented the CBU ATEP with the upmost professionalism.
We look forward to seeing everyone at FWATA 2012 in San Diego!!!
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The lecture series for the 2009-2010 academic year featured select professors, researchers, and allied
healthcare providers from around California. As usual, the lecture series offered a few CEU opportuni-
ties (both lecture and hand-on workshop experiences) and a visit from NATA Hall of Famers Bill Cham-
bers and Lew Crowl.
The Fall semester lineup included visits from Heather Ontiveros, PA-C, ATC to lecture on “Common
Skin Infections in Sport”; Greg Heinen, MD and Dan Kirk, MPT, OCS discussing the anatomy, evaluation
and treatment of the shoulder; Amber Giacommazzi, MS, ATC presenting “The Analysis of the Impact of
Ice Hockey Helmets”; and a visit from AT staff members at Disneyland to talk about the job opportuni-
ties in the industrial setting.
Our Spring semester lineup included Gary Lang, MS, ATC giving a workshop on instrument assisted soft-
tissue mobilization; Mike West, MS, ATC (CATA President) speaking on Governmental Affairs in AT;
Dan Kirk, MPT, OCS, discussing the diagnosis and treatment of tendinopathies; John Walsh, PhD (USC
Faculty & Pictured Below with our students) speaking on Intense Forms of Exercise in the Treatment of
Parkinson’s Disease; Gabriela Eisenberg, MA (School Psychologist) discussing how ATs can effectively
work with athletes suffering from Autism; and a trip to Loma Linda University to learn about Computer
Dynamic Posturgraphy with Everett Lohman, DSc, PT (LLU Faculty).
We have had great speakers this year and look forward to continuing our lecture series next year. If you
have any requests for lecture topics or guest speakers, please be sure to pass those along to the ATEP.
CBU ATEP Lecture Series
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Zumba—Thon We all know that March is National Athletic Training Month, but we
share the glory with the American Heart Association’s Heart Healthy
Month. To get our hearts pumping and spread the news about Athletic
Training, the Athletic Training Students’ Organization’s women partied
hearty at the 1st Annual Zumba-thon event at the Life Arts Center.
Before the heart pounding moves started, we measured participants’
blood pressure. A few participants won raffles that were sponsored by
Dr. Kodat! (THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS)
Prizes included Starbucks gift cards and Zumba tanks!
- Tiffany Duran
Considering that this is the inaugural post for a new column, I
thought I would write a bit more than what I may write in
future posts, so bear with me as I lay some groundwork. I
read an article by John Eldredge not too long ago and he
posed this question: “What are you doing for groundedness?”
As I read this question, along with the other content from the
article, I was dumbfounded at how practical and fitting this
was for me in my life, as you will read about in a moment. But
I also feel like this idea of groundedness seems to be an appro-
priate place to begin this column as it lies a groundwork upon
which we can build on from the posts to come. Besides, what
better time to do groundwork than in the summertime? If you
disagree with me, just look around CBU’s campus at all the
groundwork and reconstruction happening…in the summer-
time, while things are a bit idle.
“GROUNDEDNESS: Get some!!!” John 15:5-8 (NKJV)
5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me,
and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do
nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a
branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them
into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If you abide in Me, and My
words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall
be done for you. 8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear
much fruit; so you will be My disciples.
If you walk into my office this summer, you may notice the
following phrase of challenge and exhortation written on my
dry erase board: “GROUNDEDNESS: Get some!” Having relo-
cated my family to the culturally and historically rich city of
Riverside just nine short months ago, I recently had a moment
of clarity: we were literally uprooted. This uprooting was not
as apparent initially because we only moved 50 miles east of
where we were, which I know for some of you pales com-
pared to the distance between you and “home”. Nonetheless,
the roots that were deeply established in the city life as we
knew it, our local church, and our relationships with friends
and family, were taken up. Consequently, everything that was
familiar and comfortable for us was left behind. The reloca-
tion had created some challenges for my family and I which I
will illustrate through the following questions:
*What happens to a plant or tree when it is removed from
the ground by its roots and never replanted?
*(For those familiar with the physics of electricity) What
happens if you work around electricity without the electricity
being grounded first?
*(Most pertinent to athletic training) What happens if you
try to tape an ankle without first laying down your anchor
(grounding) strips?
Some of the answers to these questions paint a good picture
of what was happening, or going to happen to me and my fam-
ily if we did not get grounded or anchored soon. But because
God is faithful and good, we are in the process of getting
grounded through a commitment to a local church here in Riv-
erside, as well as through the development of relationships
with new friends, neighbors, and colleagues. New life is begin-
ning to bud in us and we trust this new life will grow and de-
velop to honor God and build His kingdom.
So, in the words of John Eldredge, “What are YOU doing for
groundedness?”
Peace,
Christopher Bates, ATC, CSCS
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Differential Diagnosis
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Congrats to the Class of 2011!
From Left to Right: Chase Paulson, Lindsay Warren, Todd Conger, Tiffany Duran, Jennifer Vetter, Karissa Scherer, Melody
Mohebbi, Mark West, and Daniel Scalia
Sarah Anderson
Jennifer Parker
Rey Flores
Todd Conger
Tiffany Duran
Melody Mohebbi
Chase Paulson
Daniel Scalia
Karissa Scherer
Jennifer Vetter
Lindsay Warren
Mark West
Tina Garcia
Lucy Gomez
James Gonzalez
Geniqua Harris
Nathan Hayes
Tamesha Jefferson
Kim Johnston
Delana Henderson
Ken Look
Ashley Musick
Cydney Owen
Laujwinae Preacley
Caitlyn Ratcliffe
Evan Stubbs
Clinton White
Midori Matsumoto
Stephanie Perez
Michele Vasquez
Jim Winn
Nicole MacDonald
Russell Baker
LANCERS @ 2011 FWATA Meeting in Las Vegas
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Why are you going to school?
I posed two questions to a first year
CBU AT grad student. The first was
why are you in school? The second, I
asked several AT students, what is an
athletic trainer and how do you
explain the profession to others? Just
as I thought, quick solid answers did
not come, it is sometimes hard for
me to explain what an athletic trainer
is myself. As for public awareness we
have gone from a horse trainer to a
personal trainer never an athletic trainer.
Let me help you answer the first question, as a father of two in college,
educator, employee and employer. You are there to prepare yourself for
a job/profession and eventually get a paycheck. Everything you do should
be leading to the plan of employment. You need to know (have a good
idea) where you would like to work and if there are opportunities for
employment in that area. For example, if you want to be an athletic
trainer working for a professional hockey team and all the athletic
trainers there have been there for a while and are in the low 40ties …..
good luck. There may not be a position opening up for a while.
Then I see a parallel between coaching and education. Have you ever
worked with the team that was very good at practice, but couldn’t win a
game; same thing applies. The same would be if you received an
education, but didn’t get a job. It doesn’t matter what we, the educators
think is right, it only matters what the employers want. As the money is
drying up everywhere, there needs to be a new mind set on how to get
and promote athletic training. It has changed many times over the years
since I have been working. When I first started working in a clinical
setting (use to be call the “nontraditional setting”) an athletic trainer told
me how bad it was to work in the clinical setting, until this person got
partial ownership in a clinic, then it was okay. In the high schools they
got rid of all the car mechanic and the wood shop classes. These were
educational programs that lead to a job and profession. Education may
now need to hit Alt, Contrl and Delete.
Here are my thoughts. Write down what your dream jobs might be,
don’t just put one down, you might even add being a high school athletic
trainer and teacher. Then remember it doesn’t matter what you want, it
matters what the employer wants and will there be jobs available where
your first choice is. If you graduate with an MS, ATC and no teaching
credential, you have limited yourself by 50% of the potential professions.
If you leave college and you are the best diagnostician in the world, but if
you can’t rehab for CMP, it just won’t work. I challenge you all this year,
that for everything you evaluate, come up with four potential fixes for
that injury. That is what we get paid for, to fix things. If we have a
question with the diagnosis, we send them to the doctor and they get
the needed image to come up with the proper diagnosis. They don’t
diagnose without imagery, why should we think we can? We, as athletic
trainers get paid to rehabilitate and get the athlete back as quickly and
safely as possible. Please add all the magic of rehabilitation you can. Learn
everything you can to get them back, McConnell taping, joint mobe, PNF,
Kinesio taping, be smarter than the injury. You need to learn bracing,
orthotics, padding, how to work with Thermoplastic splinting material.
Learn how to separate yourself and your skills from the rest. With this
in mind, look to where the jobs are, if you want to be a professor at
CBU, you can’t, those jobs are taken.
The legacy for any educational institution is to provide the skills and
education to get you properly prepared for a job/profession. This would
be for any program. I know the dental hygiene program at RCC places
everyone; this is where we want to be.
Right now, if we look at what is going on financially, every athletic
training budget is getting cut. How about a class on fund raising? Then
also, at least in the high school world, we need to show, that by having
an athletic trainer at the school this will increase ADA (actual daily
attendance.. this is what the schools get paid for). Therefore tracking
how many medical office visits we can prevent will increase ADA and the
number of days the students “stay” in school. The athletic coaching
communities in California have already done this and have shown they
save the school millions by keeping the kids on their teams and in school.
So, with this in mind I have a sincere care, as many people do, for the
CBU program and I pledge to you that I will do whatever I can to help
with the ultimate goal, of jobs for the students. But the students have to
get the experience, in where the jobs are and we as ACI’s should always
have that in mind for them. To have a horde of CBU students watch
practice does very little to make them better or provide separation. To
work independently and to make decisions is a golden opportunity.
As always I’ll see you on the sidelines
Jim Clover, MED, ATC, PTA, CPT, CES
Clover’s Corner